Anoutschka

There's no girl like my Annushka
There's no other one like her
She lives there beyond those mountains
Where the snows never fade

I met her in an old farmhouse
A Siberian cold in me
She asked me if I needed something
And she told me to come in

She told me she danced in the town pub
To earn her bread
Plus a mile walk over snow
In a bitter cold

So I followed her that evening
The cold drilling to our bones
We danced there until past midnight
And then I walked her home

She said she felt shivers
Her eyes lit with brilliant glow
I put my hand to her forehead
But it was too hot

So I stayed with her that black night
And I stayed for three long days
On the fourth day she died away
And the clouds gathered ahead

For I'd come to love Annushka
Kind and lovely little one

Her body lies beneath the ground
Where the snows never fade

Oh, where the, where the snows never fade